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How to monitor NGINX web servers?

Web servers are among the most important components in modern IT infrastructures. They host the websites, web services, and web applications that we use on a daily basis. Social networking, media streaming, software as a service (SaaS), and other activities wouldn’t be possible without the use of web servers. And with the advent of cloud computing and the movement of more services online, web servers and their monitoring are only becoming more important.

How to monitor and troubleshoot Apache web servers

The Apache HTTP Server (Apache HTTPd) is one of the most popular open source web servers available. HTTPd was also the first project developed by the Apache Software foundation which now supports hundreds of well known projects including Kafka, Cassandra and Hadoop. Netdata has a public demo space where you can explore different monitoring use-cases. Check out the Apache demo room to explore and interact with the charts and metrics described here.

How to mute alerts during maintenance windows or scheduled backups?

The health management APIs in Netdata allows teams to eliminate unnecessary alerting during scheduled maintenance, testing, auto scaling events, and instance reboots. For all SREs, it is absolutely crucial to filter out expected events during maintenance windows and quickly pinpoint critical issues in your infrastructure. Every minute is crucial while dealing with troubleshooting issues and any distractions that may hijack the troubleshooting process should be subdued.